Seat-actuated flushing-valve.



D. W. MONEIL. SEAT AOTUATED ILUSHING VALVE.

APPIIOATION FILED MM 4, 190a.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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D. W. McNEIL.

SEAT AGTUATBD FLUSHING VALVE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1908.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

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" STATES ATEN OFICE.

DANIEL W. McNEIL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE JOHN DOUGLAS COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SEAT-ACTUATED FLUSHING-VALVE.

No. 909,928. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. May 4, 1908. Serial No. 430,636.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

To all whom it may concern: the pipe, a, a housing, C, is secured, which Be it known that I, DANIEL IV. MCNEIL, a has a screw-threaded outlet, formed in citizen of the United States of America, and alinement with pipe, a Into the opening, resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, a, is screwed the pipe, (Z, which couples the State of Ohio, have invented certain new housing to the rear of the bowl, D. Pipe, a 60 g and useful Improvements in Seat-Actuated and housing, C, have guide collars, a and Flushing-Valves, of which the following is a 0 respectively, in which the contact rod, 6, specification. is held in vertical alineinent with the rod, My invention relates to closet seats in A. Rod, 6, is reduced in width so as to 0 which the flush valve is released simultaneform the shoulders, e, and e 65 ously with the release of the downward Housing, C, has a rearward extension, 0, pressure upon the closet seat. in the walls of which rod, 6 is secured and The object of my invention is a simple, actuating shaft, f, is journaled. A jointed durable and inconspicuous means of conveylever for actuating the rod, 6, is journaled 5 ing the motion of the mechanism which upon the rod, 0 This lever consists of an 70 raises the seat, to the flushing valve. This arm, E, whose divided end, a, straddles the object is attained by the means described in arm, 6, so as to contact the shoulders, e, and the specification and illustrated in the ac- 6 the inner end of the arm, E, having a recompanying drawings, in which, cess, a, with a straight wall, 6. The other Figure 1 is a side elevation of a closet proarm, E, of the jointed lever is journaled upon 7 '3 vided with a flushing valve embodying my rod, 6 within the recess, 6 and is formed invention, the tank being shown broken out with shoulders, e, 6 the contact of which and the ends brought together to economize with the wall, 6, limits the rotation of the space. "Fig 2 is a sectional view of the ball arm, E, upon the rod, 6 Upon the shaft,

valve upon an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a j, a contact lug, F, is secured in alinement 80 perspective view of the shaft upon which the with the arm, 6, and in a position such that lug for actuating the jointed lever is sethe rotation of the shaft, f, will bring the cured. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the lug, F, into contact with the arm, E. The jointed lever and of a part of the rod which arm, E, is positioned upon the shaft, e ,such

contacts the ball valve, one journal lug of the that when the shoulder, e contacts the Wall, 8 lever being shown broken away. Fig. 5 is a c, the end of the arm, E, is in the path of sectional view through the tank, the flushthe lug, F, and when the shoulder, 6 coning connection, or flush pipe, and in elevatacts the wall, 6, the end of the arm, E, is tion of the jointed lever, the contact rod and outside of the path of the lug, F. Thus,

the ball valve. Fig. 6 is a sectional view when the contacting lug, F, is moved uptaken upon line aam of Fig. 7 Fig. 7 is a ward, it raises the arm, E, which, after the side elevation of the journal plate, the jourlug, F, has passed it, falls below the lug, F, nal rod, the spring, the bolts for mounting so that a downward movement of the lug, the journal rod upon the bowl, and the arm F, will then cause the shoulder, 6 to bear for connecting the spring to the shaft which against the wall,e,of the arm,E,and to rotate carries the actuating lug. the arm upward around its shaft, 6 to raise Referring to the parts: Ball valve, A, is the rod, 6, and bring it into contact with the seated against valve seat, a, in the bottom of rod, A, of the ball valve. The shaft, f, is the tank, B, the valve being guided to its coupled to the spring which raises the seat,

seat by its stem, a, passing through a suitin a manner such that when the seat is de- 100 ably mounted guide arm, a Ball valve, A, pressed, the lug, F, is raised, and when the has a contact rod, A, the upper enlarged pressure on the seat is released, the spring end of which is seated in the neck of the which raises it will rotate the shaft, f, in a valve, and the lower end of which projects direction so as to lower the lug, F.

down through a central opening, A in the I will now describe the details of this 105 bottom of the valve. Valve stem, a, is screwmechanism: The journal plate, G, which is threaded into the upper end of the rod, A. secured to the underside of the rear of the Valve seat, a, is formed at the upper end of seat, g, is journaled upon a tube, 9, which is a pipe, a secured in the bottom of the mounted in collars, g g which'are formed tank. T0 the lower screw-threaded end of integral with the bolts, 9*, g, which pass downward through the rear of the bowl, D. In the collar, 9 a flat'metal bar, 9, is held.

The opposite end of the bar, 9 passesdescribedin my pending application, which bears Serial Number l03,581. Spring, g, is positioned such that when it is in its normal position, it holds the seat, g, at its forward end from the bowl, and that when the seat, 9, is depressed so as to touch the top of the bowl, the lug, g, contacting the lug, 76 and rotating the arm, K, about the journal bar, 9, will place the bar, 9 under tension, so that when the pressure on the seat, 9, is released, the bar, 9, will return to its normal position and raise the seat.

The operation is as follows: WVhen the seat, 9, is depressed, the arm, K, will be thrown upward at its rear end, will rotate theshaft, f, by means of the arms, 70, and f, and will cause the contact lug, F, to rotate upward, so that its end stands above the end of the arm, E, as illustrated in Fig. 5. As soon as the seat, 9, is released from pressure, spring, 9 will rotatethe arm, K, so as to carry its rear end downward and rotate the shaft, f, through the arms, 7e, and f, and cause the lug, F, to contact lever, E, and to rotatethe arm, E, so that its outer end, 6 raises the contact rod, 6, and carries'the ball valve, A upward from its seat. As soon as the lug, F, passes below the arm, E, it falls to its normal position, with the shoulder, e contacting the wall, 6, and the arm, E, of its own weight will fall to its normal position against the collar, 0 When the ball valve, A, is raised from its seat, it floats upward on the water, and will resume its seat when the water has passed out of the tank in the usual manner.

hat I claim is:

'1. In a water closet having a seat pro vided with a means for normally holding the seat raised from the bowl, the combination of a flush tank, a flush pipe, a valve seated against the end of the flush pipe, a contact device in the flush pipe below the valve and a means of connecting theeontact device with the means for raising the 7 seat and adapted to raise the contact device as the seat is raised. 7

2. In a water closet having a seat provided with a means for normally holding the seat raised from the bowl, the combination of a flush tank, a flush pipe, a valve seated against the end of the flush pipe, a lever journaled in the flush pipe, a contact device carried by the lever and a means of actuating the lever to bring the contact device against the valve as the seat is raised.

8. In a seat-actuated flush valve the combination of a contact device normally resting in the flush pipe below the valve, a jointed lever journaled in the flush pipe and having one of its ends engaging the contact device, a rotatable shaft mounted in the flush pipe, means of coupling the shaft to the seat, an arm secured upon theshaft adjacent to the other end of the lever and adapted to en- 4. As new article of manufacture, a hollow ball valve havlng a neck for engag- 'a 'e and raise the contact devicewhen the ing the valve stem and a perforation diaa metrically opposite the neck, an axial contact rod with its upper end seated in the neck and its lower end projecting through the perforation.

The combination of a rubber ball valve having upon one side a neck and diametrically opposite the neck a perforation, a contact rod having an enlarged end seated in the neck and projecting through the perforation and a stem engaging the enlarged end of the contact rod.

DANIEL W. McNEIL.

Vitnesses:

l/VALTER F. MURRAY, AoNEs MoCoRMAcK. 

